Elisha Angels Thursday 8 th October 2015

Pin-hole Camera

I used one of my shoeboxes, or from one of my family members. I had to cut a small square on the lid while outing it at the right angle, paint it pitch black, place a brass flat on the lid, use a needle to make a pin hole on top of the lid, use sandpaper to smooth down the brass, use black tape to cover the lid for later use, also the edges of the bottom part of the box and lastly, I put a plain plastic paper with sticky tape in order to keep the photograph intact.

I took the photo in the smoking area outside where my team members took a photo of me sitting in the metal bench.

It has taken me 2½ minutes to take the photo. By the time we were in the darkroom while placing the photo into three chemical liquids named develop, stop and fix. After a little while I got to say, my photo came out surprisingly better than I had expected.

I had to do the same process, expect this time need to use pieces of plastic to copy a part of my photo. I first took 2 strips of small plastic

Elisha Angels Thursday 8 th October 2015

paper and placed them into a light filter-like machine where I copied them both 3-4 times for 20 seconds each, the same I had to do it with a bigger plastic paper (being the same shape as the photograph itself). For a couple of minutes, I put all three of them in the chemical liquids and washed them with water and once again, it came out really great (and just an extra, there were other strips of plastic paper I used, but turned out a little too blank dark in its result).